The Osceola times., 1887-03-19


2l3 during the six months ended February
2s, 1880 Mineral oil exports for February
last amounted 10 s2,4OO, ls2, against s., ,259,-
4al in February, 1886
THE National League OF Musicians OF the
United States, in session at Chicago re-
Gently passed resolutions asking Congress
for protection.
FRANK Z. BUDD, an abscondng New
York broker, has been brought back from
Montreal.
IS the Common Pleas Court at Columbus,
o., Judge Duncan sustained the demurrer
in the indictment in the election tally shee;
forgery cases. The reason assigned was
because no copy of the tally sheet was set
out in the indictment.
CHARGES of heresy have been preferred
by studcns of the Yale theological school
against Prof John +. Russell
The body Of woman was found recently
Boston.
THE Stanley expedition for the relief OF
Emin Bey left Cape Town, South Africa, on
the 10th for the Congo.
Two persons were killed and ten injured
by en- explosion of melinito in the arsena
at Belfort, France, recently.
The 5000 appropriated by Congress for
the militia will not become available until
July |.
ExTRAoRDINARY activity is displayed at
Krupp's works at Essen in filling orders
for guns for the German Government
ALL but one of the cooperage firms of
New York and Brooklyn gave in to the
strikers
TUE German Catholic editors and publish
crs met at Cincinnati on the 10th TO form "A
German American Catholic Press Associa-
tion.
THE French Chamber of Deputies, by
vote OF 33s against 23S, has approved the
bill imposing duty OF five francs per kilos
on wheat imports.
THE Shah of Persia has granted 2i,0O
square yards of ground TO DR.. W. W. Tor
renee, physician Of the American Presby-
ierian Board OF Missions, for hospital at
Teheran.
GOVERNOR MAI, OF the Portuguese settle
ment on the Island o. Timor in the Malay
Archipelago, mas bocr assasslnated by nl-
tives. FIVE regiments have been sent to
the colony from Macao.
THE schooner Grace Bradley has been
wrecked at the Delaware breakwater. She
was bound from Cicnfuegos for Boston with
5,02l bags of sugar The cargo was valued
at s66, 600
A rREioHr train at Southington, Conn,
ran into an open switch the other day and
caused considerable damage. No lives were
lost.
JAMES |. DAVID, agent Of the Usage In
dians OF the Indian Territory, has been sus-
pended by Indian Inspector Bannister and
Special Agent White has been temporarily
placed in charge Of the agency,
THE post-ofllce at Tubac. A. T., has been
blown up with dynamite. The outrage
was believed TO have been the work of
Mexicans.
A FRESH shock Of earthquake was felt at
Nice and other places in Europe at $3.50
O'Clock on the afternoon Of the llth aao
created panic among the people. The VI
brations Travelled from the northeast to ths
southwest
ADvIcEs from Rustchul say that fourteen
non commissioned officers who participated
in the recent Bulgarian revolt were shot o.
the llth near Rasgrad.
Two colored women and man were tarred
and feafhered recently ut Manassas, Va, by
three white men, who were arrested for the
otfensc.
THE strike Of railroad laborers at Sauli
junction, Mich, assumed serious phase on
the llth. The strikers took possession Of
the camps and refused to lot others work.
Contractors were arming themselves, and
the sheriff was called upon to send help.
TUE business failures during the seven
days ended March 10 numbered for he Uni
ted States 23); Canada, 81; total, 2s!; com
pared with 229 the previous week aud 239 the
corresponding week last year The in
creasos were mainly attributed to Canada
and the British provinces. A considerable
increase was also apparent in the Pacific
States and the South.
THE Presidents of the trunk lines, in ses
sion recently at Chicago, made some radi
cal changes. Second class rates were abol-
ished east of Chicago, also agents commits
sions.
ARTHUR DEMIN0, late OF Sligo County,
Ind, was insured in the Etna Life Insur-
ance Company for $1,000. After his death
the company refused payment on the ground
that he had killed himself through intcm
perance. SUIT was brought to recover and
the jury brought in verdict against the
company for $1,000 An appeal to the Su.
preme Court will be taken.
SPECIAL rates are to be allowed on all
roads leading TO Washington on the occa-
sion Of the national drill-three-q quarters OF
a cont per mile each way.